Will Mankind Make it to Mars?
The Red Planet has always been visible from Earth. It’s a tiny red speck in the sky that you can cover with your thumb, yet it remains millions of …
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Reusable Rockets Could Make Space Travel Cheaper and Greener: How Close are We?
Fabric grocery bags. Stainless steel water bottles. Insulated lunch bags. Rechargeable batteries. Plastic plates. Cloth diapers.
When will we have …
Continue ReadingAll About Dark Matter: What is This Mysterious Substance?
Dark matter: it sounds like a sinister creation in a science fiction novel, but it’s probably much more real than that. Most scientists believe that …
Continue ReadingWhat Happens When the Sun's Magnetic Poles Flip?
Our friendly, neighborhood star undergoes a major change every 11 years. The last occurred in 2014. Learn what happens when the sun’s magnetic …
Continue ReadingHow Much of a Threat is Space Junk?
Not content with polluting the Earth and its atmosphere we are now cluttering up space with dead, useless satellites and other assorted space junk. In …
Continue ReadingA Galactic Quiz - Test Your Knowledge of These "Island Universes"!
There are more galaxies in the Universe than there are stars in our Milky Way. And, they come in all shapes and sizes. What do you know about the …
Continue ReadingViolent Stars - A Stellar Gallery of the Violent Life of Stars
There is violence in the Milky Way. Stars are exploding. They are consuming each other. They are having tugs of war with each other’s mass. …
Continue ReadingExploring Two of the Most Magnificent Open Clusters in the Night Sky: the Hyades and the Pleiades.
Wrap up warm, grab your binoculars and focus on two of the most spectacular open clusters in the winter sky: the Hyades and the Pleiades.
Continue ReadingGiordano Bruno: A Monk Ahead of his Time
Giordano Bruno was a monk on a mission. He believed life existed outside of the Earth, that the sun wasn’t the center of the Universe, and that …
Continue ReadingMan In Space - A Spacewalk Image Gallery
One of the most exiting activities of spaceflight have occurred when astronauts and cosmonauts left their spacecraft and floated free in space. The …
Continue ReadingHow Stars Are Named: Why This Menagerie of Names & Catalog Numbers For Extrasolar Planets?
The discovery of hundreds of extrasolar planets has revealed a weakness in scientific research: Astronomers are no good at naming them!!
Continue ReadingA Gallery of Amazing Deep Space Images
The Hubble Space Telescope has given us spectacular images of deep space objects that not only have expanded our knowledge of the Universe but shown …
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